15 Related Articles from 2019-08-19

Apartments sold and rented. A selection of the latest real estate deals in Israel including in Ramat Hasharon, Bat Yam, Ashdod and Netanya. >>

BoI: Five-day school week would raise productivity. The Bank of Israel proposes greater investment in education and more overlap between school hours and work hours to bring productivity up to the OECD average. >>

Deflation raises prospect that Bank of Israel will try to tamp down the mighty shekel. July consumer price index fell 0.3%, but home prices rose 0.5% amid signs that the market is heating up again >>

Gantz and Lieberman's parties may sign surplus vote sharing deal ahead of Israeli election. Move on surplus votes hints at attempt by Kahol Lavan to appeal to the moderate right >>

Israel – presidential symbolism vs. concrete security measures. In fact, when you look back at the last decade and a half, Iron Dome remains one of the singular accomplishments ensuring Israel’s security. >>

Israel's attorney general is allowing the gender-segregation tsunami to sweep over. Avichai Mendelblit's court opinion that publicly-funded, gender-segregated events are acceptable in 'special circumstances' may create a precedent that no one can stop >>

Israeli economy grew at just 1% in Q2 2019. The slowdown in the second quarter was due to a sharp drop in vehicle imports, the Central Bureau of Statistics reports. >>

Israeli teen remains in serious condition after car ramming attack. The high school senior is still in serious condition after undergoing neurosurgery. >>

Latest poll: Likud leads, Yemina weakening. With Israel's repeat election now a month a way, poll results are inconsistent, but campaigning has yet to start in earnest. >>

Think About It: From legal caregivers to illegal house cleaners. If Israel were a well-ordered state, and the Interior Ministry did what it is expected to do, Perez’s status should have been determined back in 2006, when Rohan was born. >>

Tlaib calls for boycott of Bill Maher show after he slams BDS. Rashida Tlaib said that she is "tired of folks discrediting a form of speech that is centered on equality and freedom." >>

Tlaib suggests boycott of Maher after HBO host slams BDS as 'a bullshit purity test'. 'It’s predicated on this notion... As if the occupation came right out of the blue, that this completely peaceful people found themselves occupied,' argued Bill Maher >>